A delegation headed by Pakistan Indus Basin Commissioner Mirza Asif Baig will leave for India today after India has approved site inspection of the 140 Megawatt Miyar Power House at River Chenab in the disputed Kashmir valley.
According to the Ministry of Water and Power, the Pakistani delegate will first reach New Delhi and later proceed to the site. The inspection would continue from September 21 to September 24.
Officials reportedly stated that the delegation head will demand the data related to water flowing from River Chenab at Salal and Baglihar during the floods, from Indian Indus Basin Commissioner Shri K Vohra.
Pakistan has been insisting on Miyar Power House’s inspection from the past two years.
Earlier, the Pakistan Indus Basin commissioner had canceled a scheduled visit to India over India’s refusal to let Pakistan inspect the disputed proposed powerhouse at River Chenab in the Kashmir valley.
India had reportedly finalised plans to build four powerhouses of 2,110 Megawatts on the section of River Chenab that falls in Indian-occupied Kashmir. Pakistan had objected to all four projects as per the Indus Basin Treaty.
According to a mutual agreement in September 2013, India had promised to let the Pakistani commissioner inspect the site and the project.
Vohra was supposed to send the Pakistani Indus Basin commissioner the inspection schedule earlier this year between March 2 and March 4 but the inspection plan for the Miyar Power House was dropped.
The Pakistani commissioner had informed Indian counterpart through a letter about the cancelation of the visit. The same letter had also proposed inclusion of inspection of the disputed powerhouse and holding negotiations during the last week of March.
